Trial of Jimmy Lai: ‘Dissenters Risk Similar Fate’ Warns Co-founder of UK Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (www.jurist.org)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10896265...
The latest indignity for China’s flawed recovery (www.smh.com.au)
Neighbours whose economic fortunes were supposed to be tied to the heft of the country’s rebound from the pandemic seem to be doing pretty well without it....
‘We did it to our own people’: How China forced Kazakhs to implement its ethnic crackdown (www.telegraph.co.uk)
The story of a Kazakhi woman who lived in China provides chilling new details of how the Chinese state detained upwards of a million people in “re-education” camps from 2017 to 2020....
Hiring in China: Monkey King wanted, perks include warm cave – and plenty of bananas (edition.cnn.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10824497
Lawyers for Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai appealed to the United Nations expert on torture over the treatment of a witness they believe was tortured before giving incriminating evidence (1ft.io)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10781442...
Human rights group urges Western democracies to suspend bilateral extradition agreements with China over Beijing's "abusive warrants, bounties and groundless charges" (safeguarddefenders.com)
In December, the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) issued arrest warrants and 1 million HKD bounties on the heads of five Hong Kong democracy activists and human rights defenders....
Taiwan considers joining international criminal court to deter potential China invasion (www.theguardian.com)
Israel-Palestine, number of children killed in the West Bank reaches 'unprecedented levels', UN says (www.unicef.org)
“As the world watches on in horror at the situation in the Gaza Strip, children in the West Bank are experiencing a nightmare of their own. Living with a near-constant feeling of fear and grief is, sadly, all too common for children affected. Many children report that fear has become a part of their daily life, with many...
Hong Kong activist convicted under security law flees to UK (www.afr.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10660247...
After bumpy recovery, China’s economy faces serious headwinds in 2024 (www.aljazeera.com)
New York court: Spanish company and the CIA found guilty of violating rights of Julian Assange’s visitors (english.elpais.com)
A court in New York has ruled that UC Global and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) violated the constitutional rights and privacy of U.S. citizens when they met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuador’s embassy in London....
"Beijing’s lack of good faith is the first problem:" China will try to manipulate a U.N. human rights review in January which may even worsen the situation in China, experts warn (thediplomat.com)
A United Nations review of China’s human rights record set to occur in January should shine a light on Beijing’s atrocity crimes, but China will play the game to their favor which may actually worsen rather than improve the human rights situation inside China, the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) warns....
‘I’m very proud of him’: Sebastien Lai on Hong Kong, accountability and his father Jimmy’s trial (www.theguardian.com)
"There is that idea that we always thought China would liberalise economically, get freer and freer,” says Lai. “But I think Dad realised very early on, and he said in an interview, that wishful thinking doesn’t work. You’ve got to put the work in. And that’s what he did.”...
Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas: the Israeli prime minister followed a decades-old divide-and-rule strategy that fuels endless war (www.thenation.com)
The intelligence failures that allowed the October 7 attack to take place have received some press attention—but have yet to be the focus of sustained political ire....
China provocations worrisome but his country will not yield an inch of its territory to any foreign entity, Philippine President Marcos says (www.manilatimes.net)
Nations like France, the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Japan are planning maritime patrols with the Philippines to illustrate their opposition to China’s incursions in the West Philippine Sea.
The plight of Gaza’s ‘WCNSFs’ – wounded child, no surviving family: A chilling acronym used by aid workers reflects the reality of a conflict in which 40% of casualties are believed to be minors (www.theguardian.com)
"We had a 14-year-old girl just walk out of some war zone of Gaza City, stunned, mute, bloodied, and she absolutely had no one,” says James Elder, Unicef’s chief spokesperson, who spent weeks in Gaza under bombardment. “How many other children are like that right now? We simply don’t know.”
Israel-Palestine: injured patients ‘waiting to die’ in northern Gaza as last hospital shuts down, amid rising 'catastrophic' hunger levels, UN says (news.un.org)
